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Look for The Art of Work in a bricks and mortar bookstore or library, and it will likely be shelved under Business & Economics | Careers | General. But it will be unlike any other business or economics book you ever read! I’ve always found that genre to be either … Read more…
Rejection slips should not come as a surprise to any serious writer, though they never cease to annoy and disappoint. Who are those people, anyway, to reject my writing?! Choose Your Target In a society that has evolved to where “the bottom line” is all that matters, rejection slips are … Read more…
When you start writing a story, it isn’t always obvious whether it’s going to be a literary story destined for university journals, for example, or a commercial story sent winging to the relatively few commercial magazines that still carry fiction. If the story is nagging at you to be written, … Read more…
When ideas first come to you, just write them down. Get the story out of your head, out of your pen or keyboard, and onto those sheets of blank paper or onto the screen. Don’t edit as you go! If you’re constantly fixing grammar or correcting a word choice, you’ll … Read more…
The question of how to get started in technical writing has come up several times, so here is some very basic information. First, technical writer can be a vague, even misleading term. Just about everything that isn’t fiction could, and often does, fall under the heading of technical writing. Some … Read more…
Writing about what we know is drilled into us subconsciously from the time we write our very first How I spent my summer vacation essay for our own Miss Brooks on an August or September morning when the world outside the classroom is still calling to us. Isn’t that an … Read more…
Sometimes there’s little response to your postings on the Internet, and no interest at all shown by paper editors. Those may be the days when you feel you might be better off writing graffiti, instead of wasting your time on essays and articles. At least graffiti polluters get attention. Of … Read more…
It’s the time of year when we really have to make a concentrated effort to write anything not related to Christmas, or the holiday season! This includes our overseas Christmas cards. Half of them are done, but the other half require that at least a short letter be included, since … Read more…